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Dahi Gujiya along with Tips for Soft Dahi Vadas

Aanchal Gupta
Soft, melt in the mouth dahi vadas stuffed with cashews,raisins,ginger, peppercorns and cilantro and shaped like gujiyas.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 30 -40 gujiyas/dahi vadas

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup Urad dal white/Urad whole gota/Black matpe beans washed and soaked overnight
  • 32 oz/900 gms/950 ml plain yogurt
  • Salt and sugar to put in whipped yogurt as per taste, I used about 1 tsp each
  • Oil for frying
  • Large bowl filled with water room temperature and about 1-2 tsp salt added to water
  • A clean cotton handkerchief or cloth
  • A bowl of water for dipping fingers

For Stuffing

  • 1 tbsp cashews small pieces
  • 1 tbsp Raisins
  • 1 tbsp cilantro/coriander/hara dhania chopped fine
  • 1/2 tsp whole Black peppercorns roughly pounded
  • 1 inch piece ginger peeled and chopped fine

Instructions
 

  • Rinse the soaked dal and grind to a very fine paste using very little water, put a dollop of batter into a bowl of water, if it floats, its ready
  • Chop the ingredients for the filling/stuffing
  • Heat the oil on medium to medium high
  • Wet the clean cloth/handkerchief, using wet fingers place a small dollop of batter in the corner of the cloth
  • Flatten it a bit with wet fingers and put filling of choice,watch video/pictures
  • Turn over the wet cloth over the batter, and using some pressure on the edges to make sure they have sealed, it will resemble a gujiya now,watch video/pictures
  • Remove wet cloth from over the gujiya, use wet fingers to lift and put in hot oil to fry
  • Put hot gujiyas directly into the bowl of salted water
  • Leave them till they become completely soft, they will change color and become lighter
  • Squeeze the gujiyas lightly between your palms to squeeze out the excess water
  • Dip in whipped yogurt and pour additional yogurt on top
  • Garnish with chatnis, ground cumin,red chili powder, cilntro and boondi

Notes

The dal batter needs to be ground with very little water and should be light and fluffy and ground to a FINE Paste. Do the float test by putting a spoonful of batter in a bowl. It should float, if its not floating, use your hands or beater to whisk and incorporate air. DO NOT ADD ANY SALT TO THE DAL. it will become runny and difficult to handle. Use filling of choice,you can use a mix of all the filling ingredients or just one or two things.If making vadas to use the next day, store fried,cooled vadas in ziploc bag or container. Preheat oven to 400F/200C,Turn off the oven. Place the vadas on a baking tray and place on topmost rack in the oven for 15-20 minutes. Put in HOT WATER to which salt has been added and let it soften.
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